One of the main challenges of the socially parasitic mode of life is bypassing the host's recognition ability, which ensures that altruistic behaviour is directed towards related individuals. Various chemical strategies have evolved to achieve this goal. The most widespread, used also by the obli...
Antibiotic treatment failure in Staphylococcus aureus infections is frequently associated with antimicrobial resistance or the emergence of small-colony variants (SCVs), a metabolically quiescent phenotype that complicates infection management. Here, we show that ciprofloxacin induces a stable SC...